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takyon writes:Russia Releases "Tsar Bomba" Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/judge-issues-restraining-order-protecting-unreal-engine-development-on-ios/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud:

Booga1 writes:The Hacker News is reporting an exploitable feature of Google Drive could allow an attacker to replace legitimate files with files of their choosing.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more indoors at low humidity :

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Smartphones May Help Detect Diabetes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Pigs Grow New Liver in Lymph Nodes, Study Shows:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/china-trade-war-could-push-iphone-contractor-foxconn-to-build-in-mexico/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:'Electric mud' teems with new, mysterious bacteria:

takyon writes:Microsoft Issues Statement In Support of Epic Games To Remain On Apple Ecosystem

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:The Weather Channel app settles suit over selling location data - 9to5Mac:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Facebook AI produces accurate MRI images 4 times faster than current tech:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Japan: See-through public toilets open in Tokyo parks:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:FBI and CISA warn against surge in voice phishing campaigns:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:A Fleet of Computers Helps Settle a 90-Year-Old Math Problem:

hendrikboom writes:Researchers at the Cornell and the Technische Univerität Berlin and Cornell have studied the problem that more popular items get priority in search results, creating a positive feedback loop that unfairly deprecates other, equally valuable items.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Covid-19 Data Will Once Again Be Collected by CDC, in Policy Reversal :

An Anonymous Coward writes:After Legal Win, What's Next for Magic Mushrooms?:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Japan Animation Leaders Unite for YouTube Initiative:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:China Is Approaching the Release of Digital Yuan by Expanding its Trials:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:AWS Cryptojacking Worm Spreads Through the Cloud:

takyon writes:TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:AT&T, T-Mobile fight speed tests that could prove their coverage maps wrong;:

An Anonymous Coward writes:http://www.righto.com/2020/08/reverse-engineering-8086s.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you:

RandomFactor writes:On August 18th, Florida Keys' officials voted to allow the first test release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the U.S.The target mosquito population (Aedes aegypti) spreads multiple diseases including yellow fever, dengue, zika and chikungunya and is difficult to control with traditional spraying.

takyon writes:DARPA 3DSoC CNFET project moves towards commercialisation phase

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert to Help Track Down The Pirate Bay * TorrentFreak:

martyb writes:Sea level rise quickens as Greenland ice sheet sheds record amount:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Did a journal retract your paper on homeopathy? Meet the journal that will publish your complaint:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths:

martyb writes:Microsoft Flight Simulator's Data Insanity Spawns Enormous Buildings And Anomalies From OpenStreetMap:

Freeman writes:Tesla stock reaches $2,000 amid soaring interest in EV companies:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:An AI just embarrassed the US Air Force in a virtual dogfight:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:ArsTechnica:

Phoenix666 writes:CNet:

Phoenix666 writes:Al Jazeera:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:New BlackBerry Phone Planned by Third Party:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Super-dense lithium-sulfur battery gives electric plane a 230-mile range:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Adobe Lightroom iOS update permanently deleted users' photos:

Phoenix666 writes: 3-D printing 'greener' buildings using local soil:

Freeman writes:College contact-tracing app readily leaked personal data, report finds:

Freeman writes:Last-minute California ruling means Uber and Lyft won't shut down today:

Freeman writes:Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”:

Freeman and an Anonymous Coward wrote it with story submissions about a government-backed effort to create a custom iPod.The submissions, from Gizmodo and Ars Technica, are both sourced from: The Case of the Top Secret iPod. Like a good mystery story, it reads like a spy mystery thriller. It starts off with: